Trump's Business Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.
Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.
